Google is appending branded url to title in search results with undesired capitalization

Google is appending branded url to title in search results with undesired capitalization - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google-search, search-results, meta-tags, title to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Google is appending branded url to title in search results with undesired capitalization.Problem :


I work for an organization with a website domain that is two words that are placed together. For branding reasons, we always display the url as Loremipsum.com or loremipsum.com and NEVER LoremIpsum.com (referred to as camel-case). Recently, it appears that in Google search result pages the domain name with the unwanted capital letter is getting appended to the page title like:




This is My Awesome Page Title - LoremIpsum.com




when we would prefer it to be:




This is My Awesome Page Title - loremipsum.com




I have scoured the source code of the site and nowhere do I see the domain displayed this way. It certainly isn't in any <title> or <h1> tags. It is as if Google determined that this how the domain name should be displayed.



I've looked in Webmaster Tools and Analytics to see if the site was ever claimed using camel case but can't find anything.


Solution :

I guess the site uses Loremipsum.com as the name of site. But Google knows that Lorem and Ipsum are two separate words and then to clarify things for searchers it transforms the sitename to camel-case.



The reason why Google attempts to fix your title is that Google doesn't think your titles are good enough. Maybe they aren't unique or they doesn't seem to match the page content.



I have a site which uses the index page title (Company name | Keyword, keyword and keyword in City) on all pages. Let me show some examples of what Google choosed for building the search results titles:




  1. [filename] - [title]

  2. [filename] - [company name] (Note: company name is included in the title)

  3. [title]

  4. [h1] - [title]

  5. [link text from another page (Read more...)] - [title]

  6. [important single word used in both filename and h1] - [title]

  7. [h2] - [title] (Note: The page had a h1 and several h2)



If you want your self-written title to appear in search results: rewrite it until it does.


If the issue about google-search, search-results, meta-tags, title is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.

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